The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
A LIVE MANS TOMB
He Erects Monument to Perpetual.
His Memory and Inscribes the Sbasa

His Memory and Inscribes the Sbefr
From the Neac York Evening Sun,
Mr. Lewis Masquerier, and eccentric -,
wealthy nonogenarian, who has residad ~
Greenpoint for the past forty years, has
after fourteen years of labor, completed =
tomb in Cypress Hills Cemetery wbinL
intends shall perpetuate his memory ar,d US US
receptacle for his remains. From M +p 10
oddity of its construction and the necnIia, :.e
of the Inscriptions engraved upon the sly
it has become an object of much curios Hrues,
| those visiting that city of the dead II
plain obelisk of Quincy granite, 16 feet bicS
with four equal sides, which taper gradnaf1rr.
| from the base to the cap. 1t is surmonntaSS
with bronze representation of BartbniGSe;1Sl
statue of Liberty. The statue. instead -
bearing a torch, holds globe in its unEfted,
| hand, upon the surface of which fine 49,
ions of the earth according to the desienerss
notions, have been traced.
Mr.. Masquerier entertains some neculio.
ideas of government. He has indicated H.
manner in which he believes the world SHY ZIG
beadivided upon this globe. He saws S--t thnt
Bartholdi's statue is only to light ships int" '
| New York harbor, but his is to enlighten tSs
| whole world. 0N'
| The shaft of the monument lis formed -.
three blocks of polished granite. The s;des
are covered with inscriptions setting forth
the views of the designer. On one side NJ
the shaft Mr.. Masquerier has had engraved
declaration OF his principles. Another sids
is dedicated to his memory, with a blanS
space to be filled in when he dies. Each in
scription has caption or head line cut in
gothic letters an inch long Among sow
of these are: "Rights of Man" "3Vrong1oo
of Man, Remedy "Plans of the Division
of the World into States, Townships, and
Farmsteads," Education of Children,
lnf;,
erty," and Happiness" Mr.. Masoueriar
has also had engraved on the shaft schema
of his phonetic alphabet, which by the nse
of eleven elementary characters he saws NAV
be made to embrace all the sounds of tbs
human voice. The engraving or LETTERING
covers a space 81 square feet, and can be read
| with ease.
Mr.. Masquerier was born in Paris. Bour.
bon county, KY. He is printer bv occu.
patton, and for time practiced law, Fs
| edited the first newspaper published in
| Greenpoint. 1t was called the Gazette,
When he came to Greenpoint, forty wears
ago, he says there were not more than a half
dozen houses in the place. Owing to partial
blindness for the past twenty years, he has
been unable to follow his accustomed avoca-
tions. He is the author of a work on socio-
logy, which he published in 1877. 1t is oc.
tavo in form and contains 300 pages. In il
he has fully set forth his views on the CUES
| ton of the reconstruction of society. and has
also given an elaborate scheme OF his phone
tic system, by which means, he claims, a
person may be taught to read with one-half
less labor than that of any system in use at
the present day In the introduction to his
book he says:
''The earth should be laid out into sections
comprising all land lying between the even
numbered degrees of latitude and longitude
and these should be sub-divided into town.
ships six miles square, which should again
| be divided so as to give to each person the
proportion he is entitled to; ten acre to be
the minimum or least unanitity of ground
ALLOTTED, as that is the smallest number of
acres on which family can exist. Each Of
| these homes, with the dwellings, barns
shops, and surrounding gardens, fields and
orchards, will combine farm, village and
park into one, and make rural city of the
whole earth"
Before losing his eyesight Mr.. Masquerier
| delivered several lectures on sociology in
various cities. He said to reporter that he
was in search of a man who entertained
| views similar TO his own. If successful in
finding one, he said he would bequeath to
| him his entire property for the purpose of
propagating his ideas and reproducing his
| book. He admits that his views are in adj
vance of the times, but firmly believes that
they will yet be put into practice.
The monument is situated in plot SIC, sec
| ton 3, near Locust Grove. 1t will be inau.
| gurated on the first Sunday in June, when
| large number of land reformers will be pres
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